Discover how you can build students’ reading skills with SRA Leveled Readers!
Your comprehensive Leveled Reading Library for Grades 1–8
Including titles for science, social studies, and intervention
Your comprehensive Leveled Reading Library for Grades 1–8Your comprehensive Leveled Reading Library for Grades 1–8
Discover how you can build students’ reading skills with SRA Leveled Readers!
Discover how you can build students’ reading skills with SRA Leveled Readers!
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FluencyYour class will develop fl uency through individual, paired, small group, and choral reading, with leveled Oral Fluency Assessments. The individual assessments provide qualitative information about reading ability and allow you to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses to inform reading instruction. Oral Fluency Assessments are included in all Leveled Readers.
Vocabulary
Students build their vocabulary as they read selections that contain new concepts and the vocabulary needed for comprehension.
Comprehension
Students read and re-read familiar text and build their comprehension. The selections include comprehension questions at the end of each book.
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SRA/McGraw-Hill’s Leveled Readers are designed to promote and enhance fl uency, vocabulary, comprehension, and science and social studies skills. The books are ideal for intervention, and independent or small group reading, offering plenty of opportunities for students to practice their skills.
Science Bring science and reading skills together with Leveled Readers for Science for Grades 1–6. Comprehension sections in each book assist students in making connections and learning new science concepts.
Social Studies Leveled Readers for Social Studies help students in Grades 1–6 build confi dence in vocabulary and fl uency while learning about history, government, money, and more!
Intervention Leveled Readers for Intervention are designed for use with students who are below grade level. The user-friendly format encourages students in Grades 2–8 to focus on vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Leveled Readers for Science
Leveled Readers for Social Studies
Leveled Readers for InterventionLeveled Readers
Interest your students, provide reading practice, and help them succeedInterest your students, provide reading practice, and help them succeedInterest your students, provide reading practice, and help them succeed
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SRA’s Leveled Readers give students the reading practice they need at their own skill levels.
These exciting books:
• Are available for Grades 1–8
• Include a wide assortment of fi ction and nonfi ction reading selections
• Complement any reading curriculum
• Include a diverse range of high-interest topics
• Are easy to integrate into any classroom
Intervention
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Call 1-888- -4543 or visit
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The tools you need to help your students build confi dence in reading
Each grade level package includes a Teacher’s Guide with instructions, activities, and Oral Fluency Assessments.
In the Teacher’s Guide, you’ll fi nd a two-page lesson for each Student Reader with a fl uency strategy that includes practice in dialogue, punctuation, headings, and other fl uency elements.
Four Oral Fluency Assessments – one for each diffi culty level – are also included with each unit to help you:
• Gain qualitative information about reading ability
• Make valuable observations about each student
• Identify students’ strengths and weaknesses
• Tailor your reading instruction
Easy / Approaching Level
Written one grade level below students’ grade level
Average / On Level
Written for students’ current grade level
Provide the appropriate challenge for every studentReading materials come in four levels for each grade. Each book is marked with a symbol indicating the level, making it easy for you to assign the appropriate books to each student.
Approaching Level
Written one year below students’ current intervention level
English Learner
Written using linguistic elements that are needed for English Learners
Challenge / Above Level
Written one grade level above students’ grade level
Taking Off
Written two years below students’ current intervention level
Reading practice geared toward every student in the classReading practice geared toward every student in the classReading practice geared toward every student in the class
* A complete list of titles is available online at SRAonline.com.
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Teacher’s Guide
Grade 2
Unit 4 • Leveled Readers 117
Name ______________________________________ Date ___________
Oral Fluency AssessmentUnit 4, Nonfiction
Read the following passage from Hide and Seek in the Sea accurately and clearly in one minute.
Hide and Seek in the Sea, pages 3–7
Look closely. Do you see the sea animal? It’s a bobtail squid. It’s brown, like the sand. The squid uses coloration as a disguise. It can hide from predators.
Many sea creatures use camouflage. They use their colors to blend into their surroundings. This hawkfish is bright red. It can blend in with the red reef. You can hardly see it!
Sea creatures also use their shapes to hide. A stonefish has a stone shape. It can blend in with rocks on the ocean floor. Don’t pick it up! The stonefish has poison on its spines!
Some sea creatures are creative. This decorator crab puts sponges or seaweed on its back. It “decorates” its orange body. That way it can blend in and be protected.
This pencil sea urchin does the same thing. Its spines stick out like pencils.
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20–28
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30–36
37–44
45–54
55–61
62–70
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81–90
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103–110
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120–125
126–134
135–139
Selection SummarySea creatures are good at playing hide and seek. Read about the different ways they use camouflage to hide.
Number of Words in Leveled Reader: 274
FluencyReading Nonfiction with Expression
Hide and Seek in the SeaUnit 4, On Level Nonfiction
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• Tell students that fluent readers read both nonfiction and fiction with expression. Remind them that expression is the way a reader uses his or her voice to match the meaning of the text and to show feeling. Expression makes reading sound natural. Explain that reading with expression can hold a listener’s attention and make the content of the text easier to understand.
• Model reading with expression by reading aloud page 3 of Hide and Seek in the Sea.Have students follow along in their books. When you are finished, point out how you changed the tone of your voice as you read. Then read page 3 again, but this time read with no expression. Keep your voice flat and level. Ask students which reading they enjoyed more. Ask them which reading was easier to understand.
• Continue modeling expression by reading aloud the entire selection. Have students echo read each sentence after you. Monitor students’ use of expression as they read, providing support as needed. After you have read the entire selection, have students take turns reading the selection aloud to
a partner.
• Write coloration and disguise on the board. Ask students to use the words in one sentence. (Possible Answer Some of the animals in this book use their special coloration as a disguise.)
• Write surroundings on the board and review its meaning. (“the area around a person or thing”) Ask students to name things they see in their surroundings right now. (Possible Answers walls, windows, floors, desks, chairs, blackboard, other students, closets, shelves, doors) Discusshow the surroundings change when students go outside or when they are at home.
Vocabularycoloration (kΩ´ lΩ r∫´ shΩn) (page 3) n. The way something is colored.disguise (dis gµz´) (page 3) n. Something that hides the way one looks.creatures (kr¥´ chΩrz) (page 4) n. Plural form of creature: A living thing.camouflage (kam´ Ω fläzh) (page 4) n. A disguise that makes something look the same as the area around it.blend (blend) (page 4) v. To mix together so as not to be seen.surroundings (sΩ roun´ dingz) (page 4) n. The area around a person or thing.
Comprehension Focus: Fact and Opinion1. Reread pages 4 and 5. Name two facts
about sea creatures’ colors and shapes. (Ahawkfish is bright red. A stonefish has a stone shape.)
2. What is the author’s opinion of the fish on page 10? What is a fact about it? (Opinion:It is a funny-looking fish. Facts: The flounder is flat. It can change colors and blend into its surroundings.)
Unit 4 • Leveled Readers 101
Leveled Readers Teacher’s Guide, Grade 2
Two-page lessons in each Teacher's Guide include fl uency strategy that covers dialogue, punctuation, headings, and other fl uency elements.
Oral Fluency AssessmentLeveled Readers Teacher’s Guide, Grade 2
Individual Oral Fluency Assessments provide qualitative information about reading ability and
allow you to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses to inform reading instruction.
Oral Fluency Assessments are available for all Leveled Readers.
Fluency
Comprehension Focus: Fact and Opinion
Engage your students with exciting lessons and activities found in the Teacher’s Guide
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Teacher’s Guide
Fluency strategies focus
on areas such as expression
and pace.
Vocabulary Support provides
additional tools to help students decipher the meanings of
the words.
Comprehension Instruction and
Questions focus on one skill used in
the reader.
Engage your students with exciting lessons and activities found in the Teacher’s GuideEngage your students with exciting lessons and activities found in the Teacher’s Guide
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Teacher’s Guide
Level B1.0–2.9
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Track intervention success with evaluations and other support toolsTrack intervention success with evaluations and other support toolsTrack intervention success with evaluations and other support tools
Teacher’s Guide
Oral Fluency AssessmentLeveled Readers for Intervention,
Level B 1.0 - 2.9
English Learner Tips give teachers
additional strategies and support for English learners.
Frequent Oral Fluency
Assessments ensure students are
making progress.
Leveled Readers for Intervention, Teacher’s Guide, Level B 1.0 - 2.9
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Teacher’s Guide
Grade 2
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Extend science topics while boosting students’ reading skills
Teacher’s GuideStudent Reader
Life in the OceanComprehensive Hands-On Activity
Leveled Readers for Science, Grade 2
Develop Fluency usingcontent area
reading.
Activities are related to the content of
the reader.
Build science content
Vocabulary.
Each Student Reader contains an
Activity that requires students to apply what
they learned from the selection.Leveled Readers for Science,
Teacher’s Guide, Grade 2
Extend science topics while boosting students’ reading skillsExtend science topics while boosting students’ reading skills
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Teacher’s Guide
Grade 4
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Enhance content area reading with Leveled Readers for Social Studies
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Teacher’s GuideStudent Reader
Early ExplorationComprehensive Hands-On Activity
Leveled Readers for Social Studies, Grade 4
A materials list details any items
needed for the activity.
An Activity ensures that
students apply what they learned in the
Leveled Reader.
Leveled Readers for Social Studies, Teacher’s Guide, Grade 4
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• Boost students’ fl uency, vocabulary, and comprehension
• Provide additional science and social studies skills content and practice
• Give students the reading practice they need at their individual skill levels
• Off er engaging nonfi ction and fi ction selections to encourage students to become enthusiastic readers
Use SRA Leveled Readers in your classroom to:
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Call 1-888- -4543or visit SRAonline.com for more information
or to order!
Call 1-888- -4543or visit SRAonline.com for more information
or to order!
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